Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mark Requa, onetime California Republican National Committeeman, remarked in Salt Lake City that his friend Herbert Hoover is in the market for "a good mine...
...future I shall play only in tournaments that fit in well with my work." Up for auction in Denver came the last tawdry possessions of Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby") Doe Tabor, who was frozen to death last year after 35 years of guarding the abandoned Matchless Silver Mine, once worth $1,000,000 to her husband, the late wealthy U. S. Senator Horace Austin Warner ("Haw") Tabor (TIME, March 18, 1935). To an eager crowd were offered a dozen silver nut picks, a pearl-encrusted fan, 50 silk handkerchiefs, a quart of rye whiskey, dozens of photographs, a gold safety...
...remaining strength. Visionaries of a new order, they would fight to create it. A. F. of L.'s Executive Council was debating whether to suspend from the Federation, on a charge of attempting to set up a rival Labor organization, John Lewis' United Mine Workers and the other industrial unions allied in schismatic...
Just as Samuel Gompers adjusted himself to the realities of 1886, so John L. Lewis has adjusted himself to those of 1936. His United Mine Workers' Union admits any man who works in or around a coal mine, no matter what his craft. Under his aggressive leadership U. M. W. has become the biggest, richest, most powerful union in the land. Backed by eleven other industrial unions, leader Lewis is now attempting to organize Steel's 500,000 workers on the same principle. Beyond that- implicit in his announced plan to organize the automobile, rubber, lumber and textile...
...platform stood a huge sign urging "Join Now - No Initiation Fee - One Union for All Workers!" Four green-rib boned wreaths were inscribed: "In Memoriam. The Spirit of 1892 Lives On." Chief speaker was red-faced Thomas Kennedy, Secretary-Treasurer of United Mine Workers and Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania...